ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PARTICULATE BUILD MATERIAL MANAGEMENT STATION

• Main Authors: ALONSO, Xavier, CHANCLON, Ismael, ROURE PASTOR, Francesc
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 04.08.2021
• Subjects: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY; ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OFTHREE-DIMENSIONAL [3-D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVEAGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3-D PRINTING,STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING; APPARATUS FOR APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TOSURFACES, IN GENERAL; APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL; CASTING; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY; MAKING METALLIC POWDER; MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM METALLIC POWDER; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; POWDER METALLURGY; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR; SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; TRANSPORTING; WORKING METALLIC POWDER; WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL

An additive manufacturing particulate build material management station (306), comprising: a material management station body; a particulate build material supply conduit (382, 582) with a particulate build material supply connector (385, 585) to releasably connect to a particulate build material supply container (314) to couple flow of a fluid carrying a particulate building material supply from within the supply container (314) to the material management station body; and a station data processor (295) to read data from a data memory chip of the supply container (314) corresponding with a quantity of particulate build material associated with the supply container (314), and to control the withdrawal of particulate build material from the supply container (314) based upon the quantity of particulate build material associated with the supply container (314).